Montes Claros
Montes Claros is a Brazilian municipality located in the northern region of the state of Minas Gerais.
Montes Claros is a Brazilian municipality located in the northern region of the state of Minas Gerais. Situated north of the state capital, Belo Horizonte, it lies approximately 422 km (262 mi) away. The municipality spans an area of 3,589.811 km2 (1,386.034 sq mi), with 73.51 km2 (28.38 sq mi) within its urban area. As of the 2022 census, its population was 414,240, making it the fifth most populous municipality in Minas Gerais.
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Worth seeing in and around Montes Claros
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Our Lady of Apparition Cathedral, Montes Claros
The Our Lady of Apparition Cathedral Also Montes Claros Cathedral It is a Catholic church located in the municipality of Montes Claros, in the north of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
600 m · church building in Minas Gerais, Brazil · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Montes Claros has innumerous caves and 164 catalogued archaeological sites, among which the most important are the caves of Lapa Grande, where there is an underground river with a length of more than 1km. Lapa Grande is in the Serra da Vieira, 12 km (7.5 mi) from Montes Claros. Igreja dos Morrinhos. Vieira River
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Things to do
In the city there are several large parks, among which the most important are Parque Municipal Milton Prates, with a lake and zoo. In the rural area there is Parque Sapucaia, a forest reserve and Parque Guimarães Rosa along the banks of the Córrego Carrapato. August Festival Pequi Festival - Celebrating the pequi, a small pulpy fruit popular only in central Brasil.
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Getting to Montes Claros
- Stations
- Montes Claros Airport, 5.2 km
- Belo Horizonte → Montes Claros354 km · quickest by road, 7h 30m · R$115–155
- Brasília → Montes Claros447 km · quickest by road, 12h 26m · R$160–210
- Porto Seguro → Montes Claros512 km · quickest by road, 14h 59m · R$200–265
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Montes Claros. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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